W3C filtered as child porn by Finnish ISP
Due to reasons yet to be determined, the website of the World Wide Web Consortium, w3.org/w3c.org, is being filtered as child pornography (wget/curl) by the Finnish ISP, DNA Internet.
Update Sept 27. 3PM: DNA has removed w3c from their list, but another ISP, Mikkelin Puhelin (MPY) has added it (dig/host).
To clear up some confusion: The blacklist isn’t maintained independently by ISPs but rather centrally by the Finnish Police. The reason w3c isn’t being blocked by other operators is simple – they haven’t yet updated their lists to the latest version.
From Wikipedia: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). It is arranged as a consortium where member organizations maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web.
September 26th, 2008 at 23:55
Most likely again due to broken route sets given out by their filter server, and thus taking in things that it should not.
This very same thing has happened before. The “wictim” was different set.
September 27th, 2008 at 16:10
It really is on latest Police supplied blocking list. Depending when each ISP runs their filter updates, these appear around…
Case DNA: They either removed the w3.org from the list, or possibly disabled whole filter.
September 27th, 2008 at 17:48
What about da childwen? google.com
September 27th, 2008 at 21:40
During the weeks leading up to the Finnish vote in the ISO scandal (DIS 29500), many sites concerning open standards were blocked. This included Groklaw and the Consortium Info Blog
http://groklaw.net/
http://consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/
September 28th, 2008 at 04:22
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September 28th, 2008 at 05:18
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September 28th, 2008 at 12:54
DNA’s filtering proxy doesn’t have w3.org on the list anymore, so either they rollbacked to old list or got new one from police. Well, they *claim* they don’t edit the lists themselves.
Also, what with this trolling about ISO scandal? Yes, very funny for us who know it didn’t happen, but people might take it seriously. Internet Censorship is serious business, and this isn’t the time to troll misinformation.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:10
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October 17th, 2008 at 04:02
Tax payers should stop having to pay for all that bullshit that child porn filters are, they protect nobody it is only used for censorship.